what is the worst thing you ever had to deal with?

[jacko]

I'm curious what are some challenges in life you had to deal with and how God helped you overcome?
I was at church and my pastor said that his pastoral intern from many years ago died at age 53 from cancer. The patient found out in 3 weeks it was over. So sad.

50% of marriage end in divorce and I was so close to going there but held on.

 

[Lynx]

I've never had anything really bad to deal with myself. Not bragging... It's not anything I have done that has caused it... But I have generally had a peaceful life.

 

[Cameron143]

I've never had anything really bad to deal with myself. Not bragging... It's not anything I have done that has caused it... But I have generally had a peaceful life.

You are obviously single and without kids.

The hardest thing I've gone through was the pain of my children going through a divorce.

 

[seoulsearch]

I've never had anything really bad to deal with myself. Not bragging... It's not anything I have done that has caused it... But I have generally had a peaceful life.

You are obviously single and without kids.

The hardest thing I've gone through was the pain of my children going through a divorce.

I'm speaking out of turn here, and @Lynx, you can yell at me for butting in.

After spending time with Lynx and other friends, along with his family and church family in real life, I know he indeed has gone through a lot of hard things. I remember the look on one of his family member's face when one particular event was mentioned. And my heart broke for their family having to go through that.

It's just that Lynx has a kind of personality, faith, and relationship with God to where he either doesn't mention the really hard things (that I'm not sure how I would have dealt with myself,) and he's able to allow God to get him to a point where he sees it as a bridge crossed, with no need to bring it up again unless doing so will help someone else.

This is one of the things I admire most about him -- and wish I could be more like.

 

[seoulsearch]

I'm curious what are some challenges in life you had to deal with and how God helped you overcome?
I was at church and my pastor said that his pastoral intern from many years ago died at age 53 from cancer. The patient found out in 3 weeks it was over. So sad.

50% of marriage end in divorce and I was so close to going there but held on.

This is a great question.

I guess I have different categories:

A. The hardest times centered around my divorce:

1. Coming home from what I thought was a normal day of work and school, and finding half the house gone.

2. Finding out he left for someone else.

3. Going to court and having him tell the judge and the court that he didn't know how to talk to me anymore. I felt thrown away.

I always say he took my soul with him when he left, and God has spent all these years helping me try to grow a new one. I know that isn't Biblically accurate, but boy, did it ever feel that way. But I have plenty of my own faults, and have told God a hundred thousand times I wish I could go back and change all the things I did wrong, too.

B. The times my parents have had medical emergencies that came out of nowhere and we didn't know if they'd make it.

C. The deaths of my beloved grandparents.

D. Finding out someone I'm close to is about to walk through an unknown and undeserved fire.

I know God is faithful and gets us through (and yes, the people involved are all Christians.) But it's one of those times when, even though you know the truth of all the passages saying that God will be with you, but that doesn't mean that you, the people involved, or the situation it surrounds will ever be the same.

The scariest part to me is the unknown; the second scariest part is learning how to adjust to what becomes a "new normal."

Thanks very much for the thought-provoking thread!

 

[Lynx]

Oh yeah... Divorce.

My mother cheated on Dad, a pregnancy resulted, then she divorced him. That was a bit rough.

I was 11 at the time though, so I didn't have any major problems I personally had to contend with. Rinsing cloth diapers out was the worst part... That is STILL the most disgusting thing I have ever done.

So I guess that counts as the worst thing I've ever had to deal with. But we had soap and I scrubbed under my nails very well, lots and lots of times until my half brother got big enough to stop doing that to diapers.

 

[Lynx]

You are obviously single and without kids.

Yup. But you already knew that. I sure haven't been keeping it a secret.

 

[seoulsearch]

Oh yeah... Divorce.

My mother cheated on Dad, a pregnancy resulted, then she divorced him. That was a bit rough.

I was 11 at the time though, so I didn't have any major problems I personally had to contend with. Rinsing cloth diapers out was the worst part... That is STILL the most disgusting thing I have ever done.

So I guess that counts as the worst thing I've ever had to deal with. But we had soap and I scrubbed under my nails very well, lots and lots of times until my half brother got big enough to stop doing that to diapers.

I know this was hard on you but I was actually thinking of another event... I hope I'm not getting too far into your business.

One of your super powers is that you don't wallow in the past, or repeatedly talk about the tough things that have happened in your life -- unlike me, lol.

In fact, I hardly, if ever, hear you talk about the things you've been through that I know would haunt me if I had been through it.

Your family has definitely had more than its fair share.

 

[Lynx]

One of your super powers is that you don't wallow in the past, or repeatedly talk about the tough things that have happened in your life -- unlike me, lol.

Life happens. In a broken world, sometimes it sucks rotten eggs. Some people have intentionally done me wrong, or deliberately done wrong in a way that hurts me. Some people I love have died.

But talking about it doesn't help and does make my blood pressure go up. And it's not very good for my digestion.

 

[tourist]

You are obviously single and without kids.

The hardest thing I've gone through was the pain of my children going through a divorce.

One of the hardest thing that I've gone through was the pain of me going through a divorce. A few years later I realized that it was a blessing from God.

 

[Lynx]

And I HAVE had an objectively more peaceful life than almost everybody I know. At least so far.

Either that or a lot of people I know are making a lot of stuff up just so they can complain about it...

 

[Cameron143]

Yup. But you already knew that. I sure haven't been keeping it a secret.

I apologize. What I was inarticulately trying to say is that it is easier to accept things that life throws at us than to see innocent children endure hardship. You obviously have been in that situation.

 

[Lynx]

I apologize. What I was inarticulately trying to say is that it is easier to accept things that life throws at us than to see innocent children endure hardship. You obviously have been in that situation.

Yeah. It hurts to see people making mistakes you warned them about, and getting hurt. It hurts even more when they get hurt and it ain't even their fault. And both hurt more than if you had got hurt yourself.